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Record #:
35176
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A brief introduction about the reasoning behind superstitions leads to several lists of superstitions, which are organized by category.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Dec 1961,
p4-22
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Record #:
35267
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This is an excerpt from the newspaper Raleigh News and Observer about some superstitions regarding love and marriage.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 15 Issue 1, May 1967,
p20
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Record #:
35275
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A list of 15 superstitions relating to children, weather, love/marriage, and death.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Nov 1967,
p50
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Record #:
35374
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As people settled across America, they brought their superstitions and beliefs with them; the list is composed of 145 beliefs that were found in California but originated from North Carolina.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 18 Issue 3, Nov 1970,
p117-123
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Record #:
35409
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A group of men are led into a supposedly haunted pocosin, or wetland, in an attempt to find a sawmill and city on the other side.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 1, Jan 1971,
p6-8
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Record #:
35469
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Several superstitions and stories concerning the supernatural that was told to the author as a boy by his father.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971,
p173-176
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Record #:
35538
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A collection of 17 stories and folktales written by children, each with an accompanying drawing.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 3, Aug 1972,
p108-114, il
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Record #:
35585
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Several superstitions that pertain to horses.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 1, Apr 1973,
p17
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35586
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Located west of Wilmington, the town of Maco has had several strange happenings, particularly by Maco Light, a crossroad.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 1, Apr 1973,
p18-22
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Record #:
35601
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In 1972, Doris Betts wrote the novel “The River to Pickle Beach,” about life in a small North Carolina town. Betts imbued her work with folkloric elements, such as superstitions and speech, native to North Carolina; in this article, Moose highlights those elements and explains some of them.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 2, May 1973,
p61-62
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Record #:
35670
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A collection of stories from teenage boys about ghosts, haunted houses, murder, and more.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 3, Aug 1974,
p115-118
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Record #:
35908
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Mentioned was Smoke to Gold, a book produced by a local junior historic club, the Skewarkians. Getting the spotlight, though, was their second literary endeavor, Weird Tales. Many of the tales told were the byproduct of club members interviewing residents of Martin County, living in towns like Bear Grass. Helping the book to live up to its name and claim were ghost stories, local superstitions, and folk medicine.
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Record #:
37034
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The author recounts several stories concerning ghosts and superstitions told to her by her fore-parents.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 63 Issue 1-2, 2016,
p41-49
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